Profile Sweep

Profile Sweep

Profile Sweep builds a solid through the cross-sections you draw: pick two or more closed curves, and the command sweeps a body through them — ordered, capped, optionally mirrored, and re-editable afterwards. It is the free-form tube of the toolbox: a bail, a chunky link, an organic shank, any shape you can describe as “these sections, in this order”.

ArtisanProfileSweep

Building the sweep

Select the closed curves in the panel; each one gets a numbered dot in the viewport showing the sweep order, and a gumball at its center to move it in place — the preview follows live. In the parameters table, every curve has its own Width and Height, so a section can be squashed or grown without redrawing it, and ▲/▼ buttons to reorder it.

Output mode chooses what gets built:

• Brep — a closed NURBS solid, with a Cap section for each end: None, Flat, or Round (the default), with the dome height of each round cap under your control.
• SubD — a SubD body instead, with Shape segments (density around each section) and Rail segments (rings along the sweep). SubD output has no caps.

Advanced

• Continuity — how the sweep’s spine leaves the first section and arrives at the last: Position, Tangency (default), Curvature, G3, or G4, with a Flip per end to reverse the tangent for S-shaped transitions. With two sections and Position at both ends, the sweep runs dead straight.
• Symmetry — None, Vertical, Horizontal, or Quad: the sweep is mirrored about the world planes and joined, so one quarter of the sections can describe the whole piece.

This element is editable

With Brep output, the sweep is baked as a parametric element: run ArtisanEdit on it and the panel reopens with your sections, sizes, and order exactly as you left them — move a curve, change a width, accept, and the solid rebuilds. SubD output is plain geometry and cannot be re-edited.